7d ago

What's your superpower?

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In a room full of power supplies i was the only one able to find which one was still powering something, because apparently out of the ~20 people that tried before me, i was the only one that could hear the transformer whine.
Also a general annoyance since i need to charge my phone in another room if i want to sleep without simulating tinnitus.
- That's something you might lose over time, that's why some places would install speakers with certain sounds outside their door, kids wouldn't hang around because it disturbed them, older people just didn't hear it.
  
  Unless you're autistic. We don't lose the top end of our hearing for some reason. Those "mosquito" devices can trigger my migraines, at 43 years old.
  
  don't think that autism has to do with it. The cause for the higher frequency hearing loss is a physical degradation of the small hairs in the cochlear. And in some people it just happens a lot less
  
  No, really. It is very common for individuals on the autistic spectrum to have above average acuity of high frequency sound.
  
  Fuck. I'm 35 and I was able to hear a failing ballast in a light fixture at a busy reptile expo.
  I have a spectrum analyzer on my phone, which I had to use to prove to my wife that there was a loud high-pitch whine, and that it wasn't tinnitus or a phantom sound.
  This would be a weird way to find out I'm on the spectrum.
  
  Your spectrum analyzer pulled double-duty!
  
  Nice XD
  
  Could it be a result of not liking other loud sounds? Loud music, concerts, loud crowded places, headphones played too loud etc all can damage your upper range hearing, and iirc many on the spectrum do not enjoy loud stumuli.
  
  At the volume I have my games and music, I rather doubt it. :-/
  
  If a "friend" detonates an IED firework in an abandoned field near your head you will lose that top end... But you will also get really bad tinnitus.
  
  We don't? I can still hear the whine of a CRT. I don't think I have ever heard a mosquito alarm. Maybe I wasn't paying attention.
  
  For what it's worth, about that age is when it started to go away for me.
  
  Masquito alarms should be illegal.
  
  When do we stop hearing the damn things? (27 here)
- Found the youngest person.
- Another one!
  It's a common autistic trait, FYI 💛
- My solution to the charger wine was to get a better quality one. I find branded ones don't have that issue anywhere near as much.
- SO that's what I keep hearing in those dame phone chargers.
  I don't hear it all the time though, it sometimes starts happening and after that never stops. I believe it is that something breaks or is about to break that makes me suddenly able to hear it.
  If someone more knowledge, knows what's up with them please tell.
  
  Usually it's a bad capacitor
  
  So my theory of suddenly making noises means broken don't use, is good.

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